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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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A man lives by believing something.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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